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Originally Posted by tponzo
The Stand by Stephen King - Captain Tripp (the plague) starts as a summer cold. I caught a cold right after I started reading it. Had to put it down. Couldn't pick it up again for a long time.
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That reminds me of when I visited a cousin in Boston right after reading
The Cell. That book begins on a gorgeous day in Boston and there is a ill-fated duck tour boat. Well, my cousin and I were in the same part of Boston on a gorgeous summer day and a duck boat passed. Well, my cell phone rang. I hesitated to answer it.
Oh, I had no probem with Suzanne Collins' excellent YA "Gregor the Overlander" series but my baby cousin, who is 12 and a great reader, couldn't read them because of the roaches or maybe it was the rats. I forget. Funnily enough, she loves
The Hunger Games and usually has no problem with darker material. Giant vermin turn her away, though.